(slang,uncountable, humorous,pejorative) The game of American football, or any other sport called “football” that uses a prolate spheroid instead of a round ball and in which the ball is mainly handled with hands (carried or thrown) rather than kicked, such as Canadian football.

Football is certainly a misnomer, for the game is played not with the feet but with the hands, and the ball is not a ball but an egg. I propose that the game be played with the feet and with a ball, or else that it be called “hand-egg”.

2002 June 8, "p/g" (username), "Why does Arafat still draw breath?", in alt.music.rush: